Leader: Getting back from holiday is rarely fun. Tony Blair flew out of Barbados and into increasingly loud demands to quit. But when the Conservative leader stopped sunning himself a few weeks ago, he found he could continue to bask in the glow of political success.

Letters: Britain's engineering and manufacturing skills are among the best in the world and the danger is that these skills are lost following major redundancies (Undercut and under pressure, September 4).

Letters: As an adviser in employment law it is not uncommon to find with the most recent migrants that the UK employer delays registration of the worker for some months (Losers in the win-win migration game, September 4), thereby preventing the worker achieving the 12 months of continuous lawful employment required to achieve full registration.

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